Alec Baldwin isn’t having the best week. First, he admitted to treating women like complete garbage. I think his exact words were, “I certainly have treated women in a very sexist way. I’ve bullied women.”
“I’ve overlooked women. I’ve underestimated women. Not as a rule,” he added. “From time to time, I’ve done what a lot of men do, which is … when you don’t treat women the same way you treat men. You don’t. I’m from a generation where you really don’t and I’d like that to change. I really would like that to change.”
So you see, it’s his generation’s fault. Not his.
Whatever.
After that, he sat down for an interview with PBS Newshour and managed to tick off his liberal feminist allies.
.@AlecBaldwin on a culture of complicity in Hollywood after allegations of sexual harassment and assault by fmr movie mogul #HarveyWeinstein pic.twitter.com/jHeWAhEuOg
— PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) November 3, 2017
I delayed justice @alecbaldwin? It was my justice. Stupid.
— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) November 5, 2017
Are you telling the rapists not to rape @alecbaldwin ? https://t.co/Nc3PgEzfLk
— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) November 5, 2017
I’ve been blocked on Twitter by Alec Baldwin. I wear this medal with pride. pic.twitter.com/U93KmBrUFw
— Asia Argento (@AsiaArgento) November 4, 2017
To women and men in the industry, it would be wise of you to not promote Alec Baldwin. Fair warning. #ROSEARMY pic.twitter.com/x1I9Rti3LX
— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) November 5, 2017
Because of that, he’s taking a Twitter break.
1- it is w some degree of sadness that I will suspend posting on this a TWITTER account for a period of and in the current climate.
— AlecBaldwin (@AlecBaldwin) November 4, 2017
2- It was never my intention, in my public statements, to “blame the victim” in the many sexual assault cases that have emerged recently
— AlecBaldwin (@AlecBaldwin) November 4, 2017
3- I simply posited that the settlement of such cases certainly delayed justice, though I am fully aware that those settlements were …
— AlecBaldwin (@AlecBaldwin) November 4, 2017
4- entered into w the understanding that settlement is wise, intimidated into believing so.
— AlecBaldwin (@AlecBaldwin) November 4, 2017
5- my heart goes out to all such victims. My goal is to do better in all things related to gender equality.
Au revoir.— AlecBaldwin (@AlecBaldwin) November 4, 2017
6- my Foundation acct, @ABFalecbaldwin , will continue to post re our work w the arts and environment.
— AlecBaldwin (@AlecBaldwin) November 4, 2017
However, he’s not taking a break from stepping in it.
During an appearance on The Brian Lehrer Show Monday, Baldwin claimed that Melania Trump absolutely LOOOOOVES his crappy Trump impersonation.
“Someone told me—who’s friends with someone in the White House, or formerly in the White House—that Melania Trump loves SNL and she loves my impersonation,” Baldwin said Monday. According to Baldwin, the first lady said his Trump impression is spot-on, telling a top official, “That’s exactly what he’s like!”
Melania Trump is NOT playing that game. Her spokesperson hit back HARD.
Stephanie Grisham, the office of the first lady’s director of communications, refuted those claims Monday, telling Newsweek in an email: “That is not true, which is why Mr. Baldwin has no actual names to go with his bizarre assertion.”
Congrats, Baldwin. You’ve managed to tick off the First Lady of the United States. How do you plan on embarrassing yourself next?